Colin Welland
Birthday
1934/07/04
Day of death
2015/11/02 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England
Also know as
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Biography
Actor and writer Colin Welland will perhaps be forever remembered for his triumph at the 1982 Academy Awards, when he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for his screenplay for the hit film Chariots of Fire, proclaiming "The British are Coming!" As an actor, his first film appearance is perhaps still his best-loved, the sympathetic Mr Farthing in Kes (1969), for which he won a BAFTA. Born in Liverpool, but raised in Leigh, Welland initially started out as an art teacher before moving into acting and b...Read more
Acting
(1971) Straw Dogs
as Rev. Barney Hood
(1971) Villain
as Tom Binney
(1970) Kes
as Mr. Farthing
(1977) Sweeney!
as Frank Chadwick
(1990) The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
as Reuters editor
(1997) The Fix
as Harry Catterick
(1987) The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Klarsfeld
(1993) Femme Fatale
as Martin Harty
(1970) Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
as Tony
(1979) Blue Remembered Hills
as Willie
(1990) The Return of the Green Man
as Narrator
(1990) Dancin' Thru the Dark
as Manager
(1974) Leeds United!
as ---
(1981) United Kingdom
as Chief Constable James McBride
(1976) Machinegunner
as Bone
(1970) Roll On Four O'Clock
as Lennie Brown
(1975) A Passage to England
as Onslow
(1979) After Dark
as ---
(1978) Watch That Space
as Self
(1975) The Sweeney
as Tober
(1995) Bramwell
as Mr. Barclay
(1962) Z-Cars
as PC David Graham
(1980) Cowboys
as Geyser
(1970) Play for Today
as Willie